Cygwin/X over a VPN connection in VMWare guest WinXP

[Willie Vu]

I setup Cygwin/X in a VMWare guest WinXP.  When I'm in office, I can use xterm to connect to a remote Unix host.  When I'm at home, I use VPN to connect to the office inside VM.  In that case, xterm cannot connect to the remote host and prints the following error:

xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s

In VM, I can telnet to the remote host and I can ping the VMWare client IP from the remote Unix host.  Any idea?

[Reini Urban]

2008/6/6 Willie Vu <willievu@...>:
> I setup Cygwin/X in a VMWare guest WinXP.  When I'm in office, I can use
> xterm to connect to a remote Unix host.  When I'm at home, I use VPN to
> connect to the office inside VM.  In that case, xterm cannot connect to the
> remote host and prints the following error:
>
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
>
> In VM, I can telnet to the remote host and I can ping the VMWare client IP
> from the remote Unix host.  Any idea?

So the routes are correct.

Set the DISPLAY correctly.
In VM open the Windows firewall port for X.
Also on the VM Host open the firewall port for X.
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[Willie Vu]

I set the DISPLAY as follows:

export DISPLAY=<VM VPN IP>:0.0

No firewall is configured in VM.  I disabled the firewall in host.  Still same problem.